The Japanese government is considering putting an end to feed-in subsidies for new large-scale solar farms from fiscal 2027 onward, sources familiar with the matter said Monday, amid concerns over the ...

"Lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot" is a well known Chinese aphorism that's roughly equivalent to the English expression of shooting oneself in the foot. On November 7, Japan's new ...

The younger son of Hollywood filmmaker and political luminary Rob Reiner made his first court appearance on Wednesday, charged with double murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, but the ...

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry says the number of Taiwanese arrested in Japan for fraud this year has reached 50, sharply up from five in 2024. The ministry attributed the surge to deceptive online ads for ...

Rayan Cherki's stunning strike put Manchester City on their way to the League Cup semifinals with a 2-0 win over Brentford, while holders Newcastle beat Fulham 2-1 on Wednesday. City face the Magpies ...

Financial assets held by households in Japan rose to 2,286 trillion yen ($15 trillion) at the end of September on higher stock prices, up 4.9 percent from a year earlier to a fresh record high, the ...

Gil Gerard, who played television's hunky sci-fi hero William “Buck” Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82. Gerard died Tuesday in hospice as a ...

Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era ...

The presidents of Latin America's two largest countries urged restraint on Wednesday in the face ‌of escalating actions from the United States toward regional neighbor Venezuela. U.S. President Donald ...

The ongoing diplomatic rift between Japan and China has had ‌a muted impact on overall tourist numbers as visitors to Japan grew 10.4% year-on-year in November, the ⁠country's tourism board said on ...

Tokyo University of Agriculture Prof Koji Yamazaki who specializes in animal ecology. The Environment Ministry plans to launch a nationwide survey next fiscal year to accurately determine the bear ...

A lodging facility in a popular snow resort in central Japan has been reprimanded for rejecting a reservation request by an Israeli travel firm, after it was deemed discriminatory based on nationality ...